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Ten years ago I wrote an article in the Hsin Mim Tsung Pao remarking that Diaz was a matchless fraud. I said then that a nation-wide calamity would befall Mexico after his death and that the Mexican nation would be reduced to a mere shadow. Luckily for Diaz he ruled under the mask of republicanism, for only by so doing did he manage to usurp and keep the presidential chair for thirty years.
"I assure you, Hobbie," said his companion, rather angrily, "I assure you you are mistaken; and it is extremely wrong of you, either to think of, or to utter, such an idea; I have no idea of permitting freedoms to be carried so far as to connect my name with that of any young lady." "Why, there now there now!" retorted Elliot; "did I not say it was nae want o' spunk that made ye sae mim?
To stigmatise false friends of thine Can ne'er defame thee. Compare the reading of the sacred page, when the family is gathered round the ingle, and 'the sire turns o'er with patriarchal grace the big ha'-bible' and 'wales a portion with judicious care, with the reading of Peebles frae the Water fit 'See, up he's got the word o' God, And meek and mim has viewed it. What a contrast!
All of which, during the whole of the interview, was confirmed by the ferocious growling of Mim down below in the pay-place, which shook the giant like a leaf.
"Pooh," said King Cole, half tauntingly, half fondly, "pooh, Lucy, blushes are garden flowers, and ought never to be found wild in the woods:" then changing his tone, he said, "come, put some fresh straw in the corner, this stranger honours our palace to-night; Mim, unload thyself of our royal treasures; watch without and vanish from within!"
The dog Mim you remember Mim, sir secretly taught him to filch as well as if he had been a bantling of his own; and, faith, our smaller goods and chattels, especially of an edible nature, began to disappear, with a rapidity and secrecy that our itinerant palace could very ill sustain. "A sad prospect for the heir apparent!" quoth Clarence. "It was so!" answered Cole; "and it made me deliberate.
I exclaimed, "what possessed you to throw water on the pavement this morning?" "Faix! And how was I to get it clane, mim, widout wather?" coolly returned Biddy. "Clean!" "Yes, mim, clane." "There was no crying necessity to have it clean to-day. Didn't you see " "It's Sathurday, mim," interrupted Biddy, in a voice that showed the argument in her mind to be unanswerable.
Here Mrs Varden, who, with her countenance shrouded in a large nightcap, had been all this time intent upon the Protestant Manual, looked round, and acknowledged Miggs's championship by commanding her to hold her tongue. Every little bone in Miggs's throat and neck developed itself with a spitefulness quite alarming, as she replied, 'Yes, mim, I will.
The auld carles kecklet with fainness as they saw the young dancers; and the carlins sat on forms, as mim as May puddocks, with their shawls pinned apart, to show their muslin napkins. But, after supper, when they had got a glass of the punch, their heels showed their mettle, and grannies danced with their oyes, holding out their hands as if they had been spinning with two rocks.
She expected that he would as usual pass on without addressing her, and drew to one side of the path to allow him to do so, but to her surprise he stopped. "Where have you been, Angela?" "To see Ellen Mim; she is very ill, poor child." "You had better be careful; you will be catching scarlet fever or something there is a great deal about." "I am not at all afraid."
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